I agree. I think “existential” basically isn’t enough common parlance for most people to not just round it off to “big”, in the same way that “literally” becomes “very”.
Yup this is similar to what I’ve heard ControlAI found in their briefings with policymakers, though I’m not sure it made its way into the writeup. Many people don’t know what the word existential means! https://open.substack.com/pub/leticiagarciamartinez/p/what-we-learned-from-briefing-70
I agree. I think “existential” basically isn’t enough common parlance for most people to not just round it off to “big”, in the same way that “literally” becomes “very”.
Yup this is similar to what I’ve heard ControlAI found in their briefings with policymakers, though I’m not sure it made its way into the writeup. Many people don’t know what the word existential means! https://open.substack.com/pub/leticiagarciamartinez/p/what-we-learned-from-briefing-70